For the first time in over twenty years, the National Gallery of Victoria is presenting a major retrospective of the work of John Brack, widely considered one of Australia’s greatest twentieth century artists. This important exhibition surveys John Brack’s complete career, incorporating over 150 works from all of his major series.
Zero Per Zero grew from a collaboration between two university students in Korea: Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol. Operating with an experimental approach to creating information design, illustration and animation, Kim Ji-Hwan talks to Caroline McCurdy about the ideas behind their award-winning designs.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents an exciting new exhibition, Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia. Until mid April, this exhibition examines the great achievements in film design in a fascinating display of what goes on behind the scenes. The work of film production designers, art directors, set designers and film architects are displayed in detail, as the exhibition pays tribute to the artists behind seminal works of film from around the world.
Andreas Gursky was a first for not only the National Gallery of Victoria, but also Australia, as this was the only Australian venue to host the first major exhibition of Gursky’s work in this part of the world. The exhibition from the Haus der Kunst in Munich included twenty-one of Gursky’s major works, hand-selected by the artist himself.
Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Waltz with Bashir is attracting audiences from all over the globe, if not just for the fascinating content of the film, but for the way it has been presented.
In February 2007, Getty Images purchased iStockphoto for the sum of $50 million. At the time, Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein was quoted as saying, ‘If someone’s going to cannibalise your business, better it be one of your other businesses.’ What began as a free image-sharing exchange used by graphic designers, has in just seven years has grown into an industry leader in social networking and micro-payment systems, and claims to have become the world’s highest volume seller of stock imagery, audio and video.
The fact that iStockphoto’s success made image library and agency giant Getty Images sit up and take notice is astounding in itself. However, the business rules employed by iStockphoto, which has allowed them to achieve this level of success, is something that no business can afford to ignore: the power of crowdsourcing.
Vector illustrations by Australian iStockphoto Exclusive Artists Che McPherson (chemc) and Russell Tate.
The ACMP Projections competition encourages emerging students, assistants, photographers and photo artists to submit images to gain exposure, raise their profile within the creative community and be recognised as the future of the photographic industry.
Bruno Novelli, better known as 9li, is a Brazilian artist whose works are equally as extraordinary visually as they are in meaning. His current exhibition META, explores themes about spiritism, alchemy and metaphysics, as well as his own life experiences.
HORT is a Berlin-based studio that works in all fields of graphic design, specialising in pure creativity.
Held in a former glass factory in Sydney, Cloud Formation: a forecast of dream shapes featured multimedia work by artists Morgan Veness (Japan), Haruka Kokubu (Japan) and Malou Dunkley (Australia), architects German Perez Tavio (Spain) and Didier Ryan (UK) and designers Patrick Santamaria, Sam Painter and Billy Ryan (Australia).
The 3rd annual Possible Worlds Film Festival, held in Sydney November 27 – December 2, aims to introduce and familiarise Australian audiences with the rich diversity, vibrant talent and the accessible nature of Canadian film. Much of the program of films selected for the festival will be screened in Australia for the first time.
This year’s program highlights included Guy Maddin’s docu-fantasia My Winnipeg and the Australian premiere of The Museum.
The Narrows gallery in Melbourne hosts a wide range of work from local, national and international artists/designers.
It is difficult these days to come across design that does not include some kind of hand-generated elements. The most common example is for giving a corporate identity a more organic appearance. The DIY theme seems to have really taken off lately. Michael (Mike) Perry’s Over & Over is a generous and well-demonstrated documentation of the patterns used in the current hand-drawn trend.
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Art Deco: 1910-1939 is a comprehensive exhibition celebrating the significant period in which its glamour and style influenced design worldwide. Direct from London’s famed Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition is staged exclusively at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV); the fifth exhibition in the extremely popular ‘Melbourne Winter Masterpieces’ series, and the first to feature the decorative arts with over 300 works on display.
Emily Gobeille is an art director and designer currently working in the motion graphics industry. Her recent project, ‘Funky Forest’ is a immediately engaging, interactive and brightly-coloured experience.
